{"id":65751,"date":"2017-10-27T12:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=65751"},"modified":"2017-10-28T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T00:04:46","slug":"cecile-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/27\/cecile-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Frivolity: Cecile Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past I&#8217;ve covered some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/21\/planned-parenthood-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\">breathtaking marketing programmes from Planned Parenthood<\/a>\u00a0and their tendency to shoot themselves in the foot. For today&#8217;s &#8220;Friday Frivolity&#8221;, I wanted to share a tweet put out by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CecileRichards\" target=\"_blank\">Cecile Richards<\/a>, the President of the abortion provider:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You know what we call people who practice the rhythm method?<\/p>\n<p>Parents.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CecileRichards\/status\/923686530417332224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/katieprejean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Katie<\/a> responded&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You know what we call people who continue to call NFP &quot;the rhythm method&quot;? <\/p>\n<p>Ignorant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rmABf8QNyX\">https:\/\/t.co\/rmABf8QNyX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; KatiePrejean McGrady (@KatiePrejean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatiePrejean\/status\/923725421052596224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I was about to close the browser tab, but then I decided to peruse some more of Ms Richards&#8217; tweets as I drank my tea. I then came across this tweet&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Birth control is good for business! Commit to providing birth control coverage. Join us: Be a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BusinessForBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BusinessForBC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/diUpYufYwO\">https:\/\/t.co\/diUpYufYwO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CecileRichards\/status\/923690255387119616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I first noticed the comment. The phrase <span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;Birth control is good for business&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0pretty much translates into <span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;Sterilize your workforce and their family won&#8217;t get in the way of their productivity&#8221;<\/span>. However, then I noticed the graphic used in the tweet. It looked so familiar&#8230; they didn&#8217;t, did they? I clicked on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthoodaction.org\/fight-for-birth-control\/business\" target=\"_blank\">the link<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65752\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFP.jpg\" alt=\"NFP\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFP.jpg 800w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFP-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFP-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NFP-600x315.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yup, Planned Parenthood had used a graphic of an NFP chart! Apparently they\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">do<\/span> know what is! Maybe they could consider this a better way to plan parenthood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past I&#8217;ve covered some of the breathtaking marketing programmes from Planned Parenthood\u00a0and their tendency to shoot themselves in the foot. For today&#8217;s &#8220;Friday Frivolity&#8221;, I wanted to share a tweet put out by\u00a0Cecile Richards, the President of the abortion provider: You know what we call people who practice the rhythm method? Parents. &mdash; Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) October 26,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[232,4322,944,4510,3559,4511,685,4512],"class_list":["post-65751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-abortion","tag-cecile-richards","tag-contraception","tag-katie-mcgrady","tag-katie-prejean","tag-nfp","tag-planned-parenthood","tag-rhythm-method"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65761,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65751\/revisions\/65761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}